Drinking water quality · 2022

· Verified

· PWSID CA3310026

What's in Nuevo Water Company — Nuevo, Ca, CA tap water

D
Water quality score
67/ 100Concern

1 contaminant in Nuevo Water Company — Nuevo, Ca, CA's water sat at or above a federal limit, led by PFOA at 1.4x the limit.

  • !1 contaminant at or above a federal limit — worst is PFOA at 1.4x
  • !13 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 14 never appear in this report
  • No open federal violations
+How this score is calculated

Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.

  • 18  contaminants at or above a federal limit
  • 0  contaminants within 20% of a limit
  • 0  open health-based violations
  • 0  open monitoring / reporting violations
  • 6  health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
  • 9  core regulated contaminants never reported (13/27)

A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.

Full grading methodology, constant for constant →

What to worry about

  • PFOA1.4× the federal limit
    5.8 ng/L · limit 4 ng/L

    Linked to cancer, liver damage, and immune effects; the EPA set an enforceable limit of 4 parts per trillion.

    Higher than 70% of CA systems that report it · higher than 75% of U.S. systems

+29 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
ContaminantMeasured
Nitrate4.74 mg/L
HAA520.8 ug/L
Arsenic2.44 ug/L
Chlorine0.7 mg/L
Barium0.24 mg/L
Selenium4.7 ug/L
Copper0.076 mg/L
Fluoride0.18 mg/L
PerchlorateNot detected ug/L
Boron169 ug/L
Lead0.0 mg/L
Lithium5.75 ug/L
Sodium100 mg/L
Strontium0.222 pCi/L
Vanadium27 ug/L
Total Coliform0
Hexafluoropropylene oxide dimer acidNot detected ng/L
Perfluorodecanoic acid (PFDA)Not detected ng/L
Perfluorododecanoic acid (PFDoA)Not detected ng/L
Perfluoroheptanesulfonic acid (PFHpS)Not detected ng/L
Perfluoropentanesulfonic acid (PFPeS)Not detected ng/L
Perfluoroundecanoic acid (PFUnA)Not detected ng/L
PFASNot detected ng/L
PFBANot detected ng/L
Hardness425 mg/L
TOC2.8
Gross AlphaNot detected pCi/L
Gross Beta Particle Activity7.1
Uranium1.6 pCi/L

What this report doesn't tell you

14 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Nuevo Water Company — Nuevo, Ca, CA's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.

Trihalomethanes (TTHM)TurbidityChromiumAntimonyCadmiumMercuryThalliumBerylliumCyanideRadiumAtrazine / simazineTetrachloroethylene (PCE)Trichloroethylene (TCE)Benzene
Browse the mapFull source report ↗
+Full detail: PFAS testing, water source, historical monitoring, and the federal violation record

Compliance history

Federal Safe Drinking Water Act violation & enforcement records (EPA SDWIS). A violation is a regulatory determination by the state or EPA — separate from the measured levels above.

  • Maximum contaminant level exceededHealth-based
    6 violations on record · most recent Apr 2019
    resolved

Source: EPA SDWIS / ECHO. View the full federal record on EPA ECHO ↗

Source: Nuevo Water Company — Nuevo, Ca, CA's 2022 Consumer Confidence Report — the annual drinking-water report every U.S. utility is required to publish. The numbers on this page are the utility's own. A water-quality report covers an entire service area, not a single address.
The grade at the top of this page is computed, not editorial. See exactly how we grade water systems — every deduction, every ceiling, every threshold.

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